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F. L. JHILSABEOK.

GULTIVATOR.

No. 291,730. Patented Jan.8,1884.

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FREDERICK LAVVRANGE HILSABEGK, OF SHELBYVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TOHIMSELF AND JAMES WARD, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,730, dated January8, 1884.

To all whom it may co/wern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK L. HILSA- BECK, of Shelbyville, in thecounty of Shelby and State of Illinois, have invented a new and ImprovedCultivator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of the invention is to improve that class of cultivatorswhich are used for working on both sides of a row of plants.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cultivator provided with myimprovements, and being adj ustedon the runner for carrying the plowsover ground. Fig. 2is aside elevation, showing the running devicehitched up under the beam when the cultivator is to be used. Fig. 3 is aplan view of one cultivator and the coupling-arch, and Fig. 4 is adetail of the runner device.

For coupling the beams a of a couple of cultivators to be hitched to apair of horses and 2 worked on both sides of a row of plants,or side byside for any purpose. I make an arch-bar consisting of two sections, b,which have a horizontal projection, c, of one end for coupling to thebeam by a pin, (1, under the guard 0 e, and which bow upward between thebeams to the crown of the arch, where they meet together by the anglelugs or flanges g, which are secured togetherby a pivot-bolt, h, whichattaches them together suitably for connecting the cultivators, and atthe same time allows the requisite vertical play of each independentlyof the other for the proper working of the cultivators on uneven ground.

I-connect the guidewheel i to the beam a by a caster-wheel forked stock,j, and pivot k, to enable the beam to swing on the wheel, and thewheelto swing on its pivot when turning the cultivators about, in a way toavoid the turning of the cultivator over sidewise, which (No model.)

a guide-wheel attached to a vertical stock causes if the beam and wheelare not raised above the ground by hearing down on the handles, which itis not always convenient to do.

For a runner device on which the cultivator may ride to carry the plowsabove ground, I connect the flat bar Z to the under side of the beam bya hinge-joint, on, at the middle of the beam, or thereabout, said platereaching therefrom to the rear end of the beam, and having the end itpassed through the curved end 0 of a bar, 1), and bent upward at a rightangle, or thereabout, to prevent said bar 1) from slipping oif from barZ. The bar 1) is pivoted to the under side of the beam (1. at q, so thatwhen bar l is let fall from the beam, both of said bars will swing downto the ground and form a run ner device of a little greater height thanthe plows s, which will be raised above the ground by said runner and becarried therein, the bar 6 5 12 forming a strut on which the cultivatoris lifted, and the bar Z forming the rest for the strut. he yoke t atthe rear end of the beam is employed to suspend said runner device abovethe ground by swinging under the end of bar Z, to hang it up, and saidbar Zholds up the bar 12, as clearly represented in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The combinationgvith the beam a, of the two bars Z1), the former passing through a hole near the end 0 of the latter, assliown and described.

2. The supporting device having its bars Z 9 hinged at m g to the beam,one passing through a slot at the angle end 0 of the other, to enablesaid bars to be swung up or down together, as described.

F REDERICK LAWRANCE HILSABECK.

WVitnesses:

E. E. WAGGONER, W. B. JACKSON.

